I guess I may be just "preaching to the choir," but I justed wanted to share
with you all just how reputable a company Lee Valley Tools is. As many of
you know, California is having some budget problems, and as usual, this
affects high school vocational programs greatly. In spite of this I have
been trying to expand my wood program to include more "Neanderthal" aspects.
My budget does not allow me the luxury of quality handtools. I wrote to Lee
Valley and explained the situation. Lee Valley asked me what we needed most
and promptly sent us about $500 worth of quality tools at no cost.
Companies can do this only when they make a reasonable profit, thus I ask
each of you to help me say thank you to Mr. Lee by helping his company make
an even better profit. Sacrifice by buying more great tools from him.
Explain to your wives that the new tool you are buying is a "moral
obligation." I'm sure she will understand.
In all seriousness, Mr. Lee, if you are reading this post, thank you from
the bottom of my heart for the generousness (is that a word?) of your
company.
Glen
--
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to
take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson
"Glen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I guess I may be just "preaching to the choir," but I justed wanted to
>share with you all just how reputable a company Lee Valley Tools is. As
>many of you know, California is having some budget problems, and as usual,
>this affects high school vocational programs greatly. In spite of this I
>have been trying to expand my wood program to include more "Neanderthal"
>aspects. My budget does not allow me the luxury of quality handtools. I
>wrote to Lee Valley and explained the situation. Lee Valley asked me what
>we needed most and promptly sent us about $500 worth of quality tools at no
>cost.
>
> Companies can do this only when they make a reasonable profit, thus I ask
> each of you to help me say thank you to Mr. Lee by helping his company
> make an even better profit. Sacrifice by buying more great tools from
> him. Explain to your wives that the new tool you are buying is a "moral
> obligation." I'm sure she will understand.
>
> In all seriousness, Mr. Lee, if you are reading this post, thank you from
> the bottom of my heart for the generousness (is that a word?) of your
> company.
>
> Glen
>
Yep, Lee Valley is a class act.
Good on ya Rob Lee.
"Rob Lee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> Hi Glen -
> You're welcome ... we do what we can, when we can!
> Cheers -
Uhhh Rob? I'm desperately in need of some beer. I can't get my business to
buy me any and the local beer stores won't step up and give me any. Could
you oblige me with a few cases of Sleeman Cream Ale?
I'd be truly in your debt (at least until the beer ran out).
Thanks
Dave
:)
"Kevin" <[email protected]> writes:
> Your school could not find $500? Parents spend $5 / day on a Starbucks, but
> could not come up with $500?
They could, but you have to first get new football uniforms.....
Absolutely Pathetic.
Do people really think they are getting a good deal by sending their kids to
public schools?
We should shut down public schools. At 10K per student? What -- am I the
only one that sees this a a bigger disaster then the financial market
meltdown? We WILL have an education meltdown - that WILL have greater
consequences than all the bank closures combined.
Yes, I'm biased. We homeschool. I cannot imagine what I could teach my
kids with $10,000 per kid. It's absolutely unbelievable. We could learn
history IN PERSON where it HAPPENED AROUND the WORLD! We might even make
history in the process!
I have six kids .. so let's see... 6 x 10,000 x 13 years = $780,000 in the
course of K - 12.
Since Americans are lazy -- it would be more cost effective to just invest
the 60K per year.. and then the children at age 18 would not have to work!
"todd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Kevin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Your school could not find $500? Parents spend $5 / day on a Starbucks,
>> but could not come up with $500?
>>
>> Doesn't our government run public school system spend between $2000 and
>> $5000 per child these days?
>
> I wish. In IL, the Chicago Public Schools educate at the cost of about
> $11,300/child. My local school district is just a tad higher. The state
> average is $10,358.
>
> todd
>
"Glen" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I guess I may be just "preaching to the choir," but I justed wanted to
> share with you all just how reputable a company Lee Valley Tools is.
> As many of you know, California is having some budget problems, and as
> usual, this affects high school vocational programs greatly. In spite
> of this I have been trying to expand my wood program to include more
> "Neanderthal" aspects. My budget does not allow me the luxury of
> quality handtools. I wrote to Lee Valley and explained the situation.
> Lee Valley asked me what we needed most and promptly sent us about
> $500 worth of quality tools at no cost.
>
> Companies can do this only when they make a reasonable profit, thus I
> ask each of you to help me say thank you to Mr. Lee by helping his
> company make an even better profit. Sacrifice by buying more great
> tools from him. Explain to your wives that the new tool you are buying
> is a "moral obligation." I'm sure she will understand.
>
> In all seriousness, Mr. Lee, if you are reading this post, thank you
> from the bottom of my heart for the generousness (is that a word?) of
> your company.
>
> Glen
>
Son-in-law is a high school math teacher (Paterson, NJ). Asked me for a
woodworking project to help explain surfaces in cubes (or so I
understand, math happened too long ago for me). So I ordered $130 worth
of rare earth micro magnets to keep the darned cubes together. Not sure
yet whether I will need them all, but then I'll have some (haha) spares.
I'll keep them away from computers and little kids.
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
Your school could not find $500? Parents spend $5 / day on a Starbucks, but
could not come up with $500?
Doesn't our government run public school system spend between $2000 and
$5000 per child these days?
$500 huh?
Perhaps it's time the school system go broke..
(All aside -- yes -- a class act by LV)
But the root cause of this issue is very troubling.
At $3000 per student for 13 years, that's $39,000. Figure 2 children per
family, and that's $78K to educate through the HS level.
Is anyone going to wake up to the reality of this government run disaster?
"Glen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I guess I may be just "preaching to the choir," but I justed wanted to
>share with you all just how reputable a company Lee Valley Tools is. As
>many of you know, California is having some budget problems, and as usual,
>this affects high school vocational programs greatly. In spite of this I
>have been trying to expand my wood program to include more "Neanderthal"
>aspects. My budget does not allow me the luxury of quality handtools. I
>wrote to Lee Valley and explained the situation. Lee Valley asked me what
>we needed most and promptly sent us about $500 worth of quality tools at no
>cost.
>
> Companies can do this only when they make a reasonable profit, thus I ask
> each of you to help me say thank you to Mr. Lee by helping his company
> make an even better profit. Sacrifice by buying more great tools from
> him. Explain to your wives that the new tool you are buying is a "moral
> obligation." I'm sure she will understand.
>
> In all seriousness, Mr. Lee, if you are reading this post, thank you from
> the bottom of my heart for the generousness (is that a word?) of your
> company.
>
> Glen
>
>
>
> --
> A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough
> to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson
>
>
(snip)
>
> In all seriousness, Mr. Lee, if you are reading this post, thank you ....
> (snip)
> Glen
>
>
>
> --
> A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough
> to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson
>
Hi Glen -
You're welcome ... we do what we can, when we can!
Cheers -
Rob
"Kevin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Your school could not find $500? Parents spend $5 / day on a Starbucks,
> but could not come up with $500?
>
> Doesn't our government run public school system spend between $2000 and
> $5000 per child these days?
I wish. In IL, the Chicago Public Schools educate at the cost of about
$11,300/child. My local school district is just a tad higher. The state
average is $10,358.
todd